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The Moose Who Came to Call
If you listen to today’s Ricochet podcast to the very end, you’ll hear me tell a story about our family vacation here in Wyoming–and may find yourself wondering whether I was hallucinating.
Herewith, proof.
Now tell me. Isn’t Alces americanus one of the strangest and most wonderful of all God’s numberless works?
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And hello Mr. Robinson.
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EDIT: I don’t think Ricochet is properly handling “shorts” on YouTube yet. It is a relatively new feature. Pasting it into the post doesn’t seem to work. Pasting one into a comment does drop the link, but it doesn’t get rendered as an embedded video.
I just drove by Jackson Hole, but I didn’t meet him. Sadly, only buffalo came out today.
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Clownish, absurd, and majestic. God is good.
Most of the big game were plains animals, driven into the mountains by the advance of man. As the plains empty many creatures are returning to their natural habitat.
Wonderful! A couple of weeks ago, I was walking with my wife after dark and a Barred Owl flew to a tree about fifteen feet from us. He stayed there for about two minutes and then flew away.
Looks like you got it.
Beautiful! And a huge rack. (That’s the kind of description that should up your click count).
Many years ago @clavius & I saw moose along a highway in the UP. They were huge. When I sent a picture to my siblings, my brothers responded with many a Monty Python quip and warned against getting bitten. Moose bites hurt.
when ever someone talks about a Moose, I hear Boris Badinoff saying “Moose and Squirrel”
The moose looks pretty warm. I suspect that it is really warm there. That bit of shade provided by your building seems to be what he is looking for. We are hitting the 90s in the Pacific Northwest, so I would bet that it is even hotter in Montana. In the direct sun it must be unbearable. Nothing wrong with that moose’s choice to settle in the shade.
We have a couple of these in the gulley behind our backyard fence. They occasionally swoop through the yard into the trees.
Maybe all the spaces in the local streams were already taken by other moose?
Should I tell Peter I’ve eaten a mooseburger? Naaaaaa . . .
We had regular Moose visits in our home in Jackson, owls lived there as well. Our dogs knew to leave them alone as they’d gotten noisy with a cow and cub and she didn’t like it. Couldn’t ski any more and my kids were producing too many grandchildren back east so we left. Wish I’d kept my home though. It’s worth about three time what we sold it for and 30 times what we paid for it. One of my sons wanted to go back and is making two or three times what I made, his wife about the same as I earned and they can’t live anywhere near Jackson. Can’t imagine what will happen when the Democrats finish destroying the country. I’d guess it will continue to be over priced. The fishing is outstanding, the skiing the best I’d ever experienced and it’s tiny enough to accommodate all the multi millionaires who want to ski or fish.
Saw this one at a gas station while filling up after work. Heard a clicking sound and saw this guy on the roof of a nearby fast food joint:
I’m no zoologist, Peter, but I’m sensing passive-aggressive nonchalance by the moose in an attempt to impress your wife with his size and strength and establish dominance over you. Ah, nature :)
as they say in Finland, Moose bites can be pretti nasti!
The Kimballs were up there earlier this year. We met this guy:
I just spent 5 days in Montana, including Big Sky, and 2 says in western Wyoming. It was spectacular weather, but not hot.
I never have a camera on me when I see anything. What I’ve seen recently here in Connecticut twice, in the early morning in my next-door neighbor’s yard in Berlin and late at night by street lamp in Old Lyme, are coyotes that are significantly larger and less scrawny than any I’ve ever seen here before. I only saw one both times.
Their coloring is also different from what I’ve seen before. They’re more grey. One was also photographed from a distance in Niantic.
Love the pictures and moose video.
Where’s the squirrel? It’s always Moose and Squirrel!
Buffalo gals?